Run it from wherever you are
We handle check-ins, cleaning, maintenance and guest issues on the ground. You make decisions on WhatsApp or email, in your time zone.
Is this you?
When a long lease doesn’t suit a high-end home
For many homes a 12-month lease nets more, and we’ll say so. If one of these sounds like you, short-term rent can work around your plans.
Selling soon?
Let it earn while buyers come to view
A tenant on a 12-month lease stays to the end of the term, and to get the home back to sell you must give 12 months’ notice through a notary public or by registered post. Short-term rentals keep the home empty between stays and free for viewings, and you can leave with 30 days’ notice when it sells. Developers with unsold or handed-over stock get the same: some income while units stay ready for vacant-possession sales.
You’ll earn less than a full year’s rent. What you keep is the freedom to sell the day the right offer comes.
Here part of the year?
Keep your own dates, rent out the rest
A 12-month lease means you can’t stay in your own home. With short-term rentals you block your own dates, a few weeks at Christmas or Chinese New Year or the whole winter, and the home earns while you’re away.
You’ll earn less than on a lease. In return, your home is still yours whenever you fly in.
A standout home?
Some homes really can out-earn a lease
For income alone, we take on a home only if comparable listings can plausibly earn about 2× its daily lease value a night. That usually takes a standout view, size or location. We check before onboarding, and say so if a lease is the better choice.
Most homes don’t clear this bar. If yours doesn’t, we’ll tell you straight.
Notice rule: Dubai Law No. 33 of 2008, Article 25(2). Read the law (Dubai Legislation Portal)
Fit check
Is short-term rent right for my home?
Four quick answers, with the same fees and costs as our owner statements. This is a first look. We confirm with comparable listings before anything is signed.
Your result
A long lease likely nets more
For income alone, most homes earn more on a 12-month lease, and we’d tell you so. Short-term rentals pay only if similar listings reach about our bar or more.
- 12-month lease: about AED 218,800 a year to you.
- To match that on short-term rentals, after our 22% fee and running costs, similar listings would need about AED 1,399 a night at 85% occupancy (2.1× the daily lease value of AED 658), or AED 1,678 at 70% (2.6×).
- Our bar for taking on a home for income alone: about AED 1,315 a night or more (2× its daily lease value).
How it works: lease net = rent × 0.92 (about 5% rental costs and 3% for empty weeks) − AED 2,000 a year for upkeep. Short-term rental costs use the villa or Downtown 1-bedroom profile in the statements below, averaged over the year. Service charges are left out on both sides. Indicative only, not financial advice.
For owners abroad
Abroad? We’re your team on the ground
You bought in Dubai but live in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai or elsewhere. We run the home locally, so you don't have to fly in or rely on favours from friends.
Statements you can read
Every month you get a statement showing each booking, the gross revenue, platform fees, cleaning at cost, our fee and any expenses. Ask on WhatsApp for an update at any time between statements.
Paid out in HKD, USD or AED
Your monthly payout goes by bank transfer to the account you nominate, in Hong Kong, the UAE or anywhere else, in USD, AED, HKD or another currency you prefer. Conversion uses the transfer provider's rate, and any bank fees are shown on your statement.
Permits, handled with you
We prepare the DET holiday-home permit application with you, check building and community rules, and tell you exactly which documents to sign and send.
Selling soon? · For developers
Your units earn while they wait for a buyer
A home that sits empty still costs service charges and utilities, and a 12-month tenant can only be asked to leave for a sale with 12 months’ notice, after the lease ends. Short stays bring in some income while the home stays on the market, for individual owners planning to sell and for developers with completed stock.
Income from unsold stock
Completed units that would otherwise stand empty take guest bookings, with pricing reviewed daily and the income on one statement.
Flexible contract, 30-day exit on sale
No 12-month tenancy to work around. When a unit sells, you can take it out with 30 days' notice. We stop new bookings straight away and honour stays that are already confirmed.
Guest-ready standard
Every unit is inspected before it goes live and has to meet our guest-ready standard. After that, it's professionally cleaned and checked after every stay, so it stays show-ready and viewings can be booked into gaps in the calendar.
Portfolio onboarding
Bring several units or a whole block under one agreement, with permits, smart locks and set-up handled as one project and a single consolidated statement.
